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Sounds fantastic and Welcome. You are making a graff instead of a cider by definition though. When you add the hops and malt it no longer fits into any category and thus the creation of Graff. Search the forums for more information there. I would suggest not using your cider in the steep /...

In order of questions asked: 1. Yes you can reuse yeast. 2. When you say previously brewed cider, do you mean like adding a bottle to a batch and having it ferment? I would guess it might work, but will take a long time to start and get going and the yeast will be super stressed and will...

I saw a post in the Mead forum about doing a February 29th session and then keeping it until the next February 29th. I think this could be interesting as a group to do a specialty cider and then depending on who is still around compare notes on how theirs turned out in 4 years. I'd like to...

Take what I have as a grain of salt and weigh it out with your own findings but here is my opinion on the subject of "flaws" in your plan. 1. Depends on the OG and FG of your cream ale. It's not recommended to reuse yeast if you go over 6.5% ABV due to yeast stress and mutations. 2...

Greetings Fellow Brewers, I have been brewing with a buddy of mine for about 4 years and he has always encouraged me to get into ciders as he makes really good beer but his ciders are not so good and it'd give me something to do. I recently made my first batch of cider and got to...